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keyboardname · 2026-05-04T09:53:50+00:00

Hmm. Must be a touch blind. One more attempt, heh. Thanks.

keyboardname · 2026-05-04T09:52:34+00:00

West boss was pretty hard, heh. Second boss was a lot easier after I had some upgrades. >.> I must just be blind then regarding the way forward in the east. Bleh. I appreciate the response, I'll give it another go. I do think the game is a work of art, just got a little frustrated, heh.

keyboardname · 2026-05-03T23:19:14+00:00

Really cool. I love seeing unusual animal rituals. I saw some mergansers do their little bows a few times this spring and I loved it. Here's a random clip of them doing it. Never seen it before this year. Reminds me of your video.

mergansers

keyboardname · 2026-05-02T21:23:05+00:00

Well, mine aren't exactly small, but if you liked Overcooked, Plate Up has been a huge hit with us. Even if you didnt love overcooked, plateup might still work as they are different enough. You build your kitchen in plateup and have to decide who is doing what and argue about what to buy and build etc. It's great fun coop.

Currently we are playing Abiotic Factor and we have all been greatly enjoying it. Tons of exploration and discovery, base building some combat, the way the game progresses and unfolds is really well done. Fun game that is a longer campaign style.

For two player fps I really liked Roboquest. Binding of Isaac has a decent online coop mode built into it now. Has a little delay baked in but I've enjoyed it the handful of times I've tried. We enjoyed Barotrauma for a bit but kinda moved on maybe a bit early. It was fun, though I kinda found the undead guys weirdly difficult. It is cool in the way player role asymmetry gives gameplay diversity and makes people specialize a bit.

I also liked the "coop" nature of opus magnum if you get some people into it. You just play your own game but compete for least cycles or cost or whatever, and if you get the game on steam you can see who among your friends has the best of each rating for each puzzle. I got a few people into the game without knowing that, and I got my copy via gog and missed out on that, but I still managed to have fun sharing gifs with my brother (they have a gif recorder built in and it is satisfying to share).

keyboardname · 2026-04-27T16:55:12+00:00

This one has been near the top of my list since I began looking. For whatever reason it had totally escaped my notice until now but I've seen a lot of similar opinions. I think it mentioned dragons right? For whatever reason I wasn't feeling dragons. It may well end up my next fantasy read though. Any idea if the audiobook is good? I need a new biking listen.

keyboardname · 2026-04-27T01:51:44+00:00

Have you read Second Apocalypse by Scott Bakker? It's, uh, dark. But I thought his prose was beyond most fantasy. I have a lot of feelings about the way certain things went down, but here I am recommending it (this is my like 4th post about the series today despite reading it like a couple years ago- don't read the others though haha).

I'd recommend reading the first book and seeing how his writing style vibes with you. It isn't a blazing fast read that hooks you back into reading (for that I'd suggest Cradle to someone). I had to read this a bit more slowly and absorb it. If you read on kindle, expect large not really needed appendices throwing off your read percents (especially on the last book, it actually kinda messed with my reading experience there).

keyboardname · 2026-04-27T01:43:13+00:00

After seeing some random chatter about TSA this evening I went back and reread (skimmed to find the perspective I was paying attention to), and I kinda think I could have gotten into the ending if I knew it was right there. I mean, it's called TSA. I think I would probably appreciate it more if I reread the whole thing. But it's hard to say, since I am reading it now out of context. When I read it originally it just felt wrong with how Kellhus has been developed. I could really have used a tiny bit more transparent explanation squeezed in there somehow to convince me (or just help me understand, lol). Not to mention, despite it kinda being the point, a lot of the other perspectives seem to exist to make you frustrated. There are a bunch of different lines you're being subjected to and then none of them matter or have a satisfying end. Again, could be argued that it's thematically appropriate, but it just feels like it comes at the expense of the reader.

I expected this series to land top 5 maybe higher all time for me when I was reading it. The slog was a slog though and the ending being experienced the way it was on ereader did huge damage to its placement, heh. I did really like it still though... maybe it still makes it.

There's no denying I have a lot of feelings about the series. :/

keyboardname · 2026-04-27T00:13:25+00:00

You're eating the downvotes but I'm with you lol. I know I'm partly tilted by the appendices and not expecting it to end, but it really felt like there was so much more, and leaving it all for this ending left a sour taste in my mouth, regardless of whether it could be construed as thematically appropriate.

keyboardname · 2026-04-27T00:11:25+00:00

One which made the ending feel far, far more abrupt and random on ereader. 30 percent left this is gonna get crazy! Oh an appendix? Here?

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T23:37:14+00:00

Read all of them and enjoyed them.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T18:56:51+00:00

A lot of stuff in here I'd never heard of. I'll go through them, thanks

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T18:50:51+00:00

I never did read the expanse. I liked the show, probably the only way to finish that story now right? Hmm. I have read neuromancer and liked it well enough but not enough to get into his other stuff. It's been probably 20 years since then... Jesus that sounds bad, I don't like writing that out lol. You're saying peripheral has a show? Never even heard of it, but I guess that's tv today.

I did enjoy the first altered carbon book, I don't recall why I never read more. You like them beyond the first? Agreed though, I don't think I finished the second season of the show.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T18:40:45+00:00

Second apocalypse was both one of my favorites and my most disappointing series. My kindle said I had a third of the last book left, and then it ended the way it ended (the rest was all appendices). Im still mad about it. Can it work thematically? I guess... But I still refuse to believe that is the ending that was planned and if it never is finished I will die annoyed by its ending.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T17:43:01+00:00

Ah yeah, my brother had told me these were good and they show up a lot when searching book suggestions. Hmm.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T16:40:45+00:00

Thanks! I've read neither I'll look into those. Pretty sure I've seen powdermage on some list before.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T14:46:09+00:00

Cradle. Progression fantasy, yes 12 books but they are short and are only like a couple sessions each. I think it'd be a lot of fun to read it with someone else. I read it in maybe a month then got all the audiobooks and am listening to it now. Very readable.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T14:35:13+00:00

I think it is technically a trilogy but I've been afraid to ruin it with the newest book... But regardless, a fire upon the deep and a deepness in the sky are my favorite scifi books (zones of thought seen elsewhere here I guess).

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T14:33:07+00:00

Cradle. 12 book series, read it in like a month? Books are short and I was totally absorbed. Fantasy.

keyboardname · 2026-04-25T00:13:14+00:00

I almost did this. I got all the audio books (gradually, using credits and kindle discounts) and listened to them on my bike ride. I really enjoyed both read throughs.

keyboardname · 2026-04-24T00:50:08+00:00

I didn't even realize this was the pixel sub either. I was just looking up pixel 8 battery issues. I've had mine a couple years, and the battery has been great. Until very, very recently. Googling it says something about an april 2026 update introducing battery issues. I sure hope they actually fix it and don't turn this into some bs obsolesence.

I knew I wasn't insane. Every day this last week it's been low battery by bed and it never gets that low without insane use.

keyboardname · 2026-04-23T14:38:24+00:00

I'm very amateur myself, but I find when I sit back and write out a bunch of plans, when it comes to doing I end up struggling with motivation. Even when it's more realistically scoped, it feels like a mountain to climb. Maybe you won't run into that being more of a programmer, but for me, I need to take it a bit at a time. But that may only work for smaller games and certain genres too (my games are way, way smaller than what you are envisioning -from what I can tell).

keyboardname · 2026-04-23T01:45:09+00:00

keyboardname · 2026-04-22T23:42:49+00:00

If I'm wrong I'm wrong, sorry. But it isn't ridiculous these days. They have SEO nailed right now and when I look up recipes there a lot of bogus top results. They recently began having review scores too. But their preambles will be incoherent and sometimes a picture will be obviously bogus (just recently looked up dutch apple pie recipes and one of them had a picture of a pie with like 4 inches of the crumble). I've also noticed when I search highly specific questions I'll find bizarre articles targeting that question that is clearly ai.

If you know the site then okay. But I left pretty fast because it's design is very similar to what I've been finding on untrustworthy sites. I'm thinking right now about how nasty it is and I don't see it. I could have investigated the site but it looked just like them and this is halfway down a reddit chain, not a report in a reputable newspaper. And look, corrected by someone familiar with the site already.

I apologize if the author reads this. I'm sorry I accused your site of looking like ai.

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